Interactive Chaos Engineering Tutorials
Free and open source tutorials in Chaos Engineering using the Chaos Toolkit now available to everyone on Katacoda
The Chaos Toolkit’s mission is to provide an open API to chaos engineering tools and to be the easiest way to explore and learn about chaos engineering from initial, simple experiments through to full production-strength experimentation.
In line with that mission, we’re really proud to announce today that we’ve launched an initial set of the Chaos Toolkit’s online interactive tutorials free for everyone to use! We’ve used the Katacoda system to provide not only the easiest way explore how to write and run automated chaos experiments using Chaos Toolkit’s open chaos experiment specifications but also the quickest way to get familiar with some of the workflows enabled through chaos engineering.
Why Katacoda?
Katacoda is a fantastic online, interactive training tool and environment, and it’s fair to say that everyone in the Chaos Toolkit community is a huge fan of the simplicity which Katacoda brings to setting up a relatively complex training environment right in your browser!
For us, Katacoda was an easy choice because it:
- allowed us to open source the implementation of our tutorials
- provided a powerful, Kubernetes-enabled environment right out of the box
- did not limit who could access our tutorials for free
We’ve been really impressed not only by the Katacoda system itself but also by the team behind the tool who have been very proactive in helping us get to grips with and make the most of their system.
Getting Involved
So far we’ve implemented a couple of the tutorials from the Chaos Toolkit, but the plan isn’t to stop there.
We aim to build out a larger set of tutorials so that people can really explore a full range of chaos engineering use cases, from the really simple to the difficult and advanced. To do that we are looking for help so if you’d like to get involved then please let us know what tutorials you might want by raising issues on the open source project for our tutorials, joining the Chaos Toolkit community Slack team, or even submitting your own tutorials as PRs!
We’re dedicated to making chaos engineering as easy, free and open to explore and learn as possible and we’d love to have your input. We hope you enjoy the tutorials and give the Chaos Toolkit a spin for your own chaos engineering experiments.
